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In short: Good run, but improvements with timings requiredIn full: This is my local race, so will be doing the race again. The race went smoothly apart from the start and the finish. The starter could not be heard, and the timings at the finish were awful. Unfortunately, the timing system did not work, i finished under 53 minutes, but by the time the queue in front had their times I think my official recorded time was close to 54 minutes. If the timings can be improved next year then it will be an excellent run to take part in Date of review: October 3, 2007
In short: Challenging course, well worth completing. Will be back next year hoping to improve on this years timeDate of review: June 11, 2007


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Pressure Dependence of the Optical Absorption Edge of KRS-5: An Interferometric Study
Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 40, Issue 8, pp. 1240-1242 (1986)
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There has been much recent interest in infrared-transmitting materials because of their potential of becoming the next generation of optical communication fibers. One of these polycrystalline fibers, thallium bromo-iodide (commonly known as KRS-5), is considered to be a good candidate because it is both transparent down to 25 μm and, unlike fluoride glasses, is not hygroscopic. Moreover, it has been found that the long 10.6-μm wavelength is strongly absorbed by animal tissues and thus the combination of a CO2 laser with a KRS-5 fiber would be good choice for medical surgery. Usually, fibers of KRS-5 are extruded continuously from a high-pressure ram extrusion apparatus; thus it is important to understand the effect of pressure on the optical properties of KRS-5 fibers, particularly as pressure has been shown to induce a large red shift in the optical absorption edges of thallium halide salts. Furthermore, it is not clear whether the frequency shift is a reversible process in KRS-5 and thus whether the pressure used in the manufacturing process will have an impact on the transmitting characteristics of the final products.
P. W. Yang, P. T. T. Wong, F. Baudais, and H. H. Mantsch, "Pressure Dependence of the Optical Absorption Edge of KRS-5: An Interferometric Study," Appl. Spectrosc. 40, 1240-1242 (1986)
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Album Rating: 4.0ProgJect reaches its 15th review with another lovely piece of jazz fusion. To our loyal readers, thank you for staying with us and keep that prog comin'.
Album Rating: 3.5Apparently members also liked Miles Davis.
so is this like Miles Davis?lol
Album Rating: 3.5Well, it is JAZZ fusion.
John made a name for himself while working with the famous trumpeter Miles Davis during his early explorations into electric instrumentation, which were the very first steps into the jazz-rock realm in the late 60's.
Excellent job on the review! Long live the ProgJect! Pos'd.
Digging: Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors
Album Rating: 4.0@Nagrarock; Man! There's nothing more to add, really. What a good work you did on our 15th, cher collègue. I thank you a lot, cheers. @Greg; Thanks a bunch, buddy. Man, do yourself a favor, and give that band a go. Start with their first two.
Yay!! Jethroquarantedeux et Nagrarok are back!! This was a perfectly detailed historical review. Thanks for making it; pos. Cheers folks! =)
Digging: The Observatory (Singapore) - OSCILLA
Yea. Eternity's Breath is a pretty spectacular double track. Just listened to it.
Album Rating: 4.0ProgJect te remercie, Irving. Your habitual constructive criticisms and comments are very welcome, my friend. @Greg; I'm glad you love it. It's a real pleasure to make you discover some music. I owe you a lot at that, after all.
So this is the famous (or infamous) ProgJect I've been hearing about? I'm glad I stumbled upon this, it was awesome! Great job guys!
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Yes, it was a great review. If I had more time in my hands, I would listen to this.
Album Rating: 4.0Merci beaucoup X-Man! ProgJect goes his way. Petit train va loin héhéhé Merci à toi également, Zettel, l'ami. Every music lovers have the time to listen to MO...IMO =P
very well written and highly descriptive, in terms of music and history. pos pos pos. Keep up the good work and good luck with your applications for contributor status. Jethro, did you apply, i know Nagrarok did. Continuez a travailler en ce haut niveau et bon chance avec vos applications pour devenir contributeurs. I see some of the Mahanishnu Orchestra records at my local record store at prices below 8 euros, i think i must invest asap
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Album Rating: 4.0
Keep up the good work and good luck with your applications for contributor status. Jethro, did you apply, i know Nagrarok did.
i applied as well for contrib. Of course, I consider myself as the absolute outsider. The quality level of applications is tremendously high.
Album Rating: 4.0I was to asking you about your own case since I really love your writing style, but in my book, if if you haven't completed at least 25/30 reviews, it's not worth the try. It's my two cents. Also: The quality level of applications is tremendously high[2]
You are probably right Jethro, i have 19 reviews up to now and i review relatively to totally obscure stuff, so that's why i said that I'm the total outsider in this.
Album Rating: 4.0Yeah I can 150% hear you. It's not pretty fair from Sputnikmusic.com to neglect all these old and/or obscure stuff that all deserve more credits, since these reviews are as much, sometimes still more read and visited than the brand new releases and indie shit reviews. Personally, my first goal is to cover whatever I want for my own pleasure, so I'll stay motivated to write more and more. That's what counts.
first two albums are fantastic i should get this pretty soon
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It blows my mind how this actually got included in the game. IN-TEXT would have been fine.
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Aquino is answering Kevin Filan on a message that Kevin had posted on alt.satanism. The relevant part is found in the information about corporations, where Aquino reveals information about documents that were hushed down among the general membership. Aquino's reply has been included in its entirety below.
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I normally do not respond to Filan posts, since his motives are routinely malicious. But in this one he both raises and personally serves as an illustration of some points which alt.satanism readers may think significant.
Kevin said:
>In article <firstname.lastname@example.com>,
>Kevin Filan <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>I presume that Dr. Aquino is referring to the
>Church of Satan as a "financial game." If that is
>indeed the case, I also presume that he has some
>evidence of financial shenanigans or misdeeds on
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There are two aspects to this answer: the theological and the corporate.
The Church of Satan was founded as, operated for its first nine years as, and represented itself as a church believing in and dedicated to the worship of Satan, the metaphysical conscious entity standing apart from and in contrast to the singularity of the cosmos.
As with any religion, the Church tolerated varying shades of literal belief in Satan among its lay membership, but where the Priesthood of Mendes was concerned, there was no question of the literal sincerity of the Church whatever. At the lay level, see for example the Adult Rite of Satanic Baptism, with particular attention to its Oath, as contained in Anton LaVey's _Satanic Rituals_.
The Oath administered to Priests and Priestesses of Mendes was equally unequivocal. The entire Ceremony of Ordination is sworn not to be revealed to the profane, but I think this specific passage is justifiably quoted here:
"Advance to the altar of Hell, that the eye of Our Lord Satan may seize upon you. As your mind is revealed to the Lord of This World, do you affirm your cause with Satan and accept of your free will his eternal Priesthood? [Response]
"I bring your hand to that of Azazel, High Herald of the Infernal Empire, who shall set upon you the seal of the Priesthood of Mendes.
"In the name of Satan, and of his Exarch upon Earth, I name you to our Fellowship and send you forth - beyond the Abyss - to walk in ways of strangeness and of beauty. You are become as Belial - knowing no master - and you are a glory to your race and a brilliance before the sight of Our Lord Satan."
My point is simply that, as I have recounted here and elsewhere at length, this belief in and allegiance to Satan was absolutely and unequivocally at the core of the original Church of Satan. Just as pointedly the Church was vague about this in its interactions with the public, for the obvious reason that it was much more easy for it to be tolerated as a mere psychodramatic/symbolic affair than as a deadly serious religion dedicated to the Devil, his Daemons, and Black Magic.


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Just back from a week in Brussels. Washed a lot mussels down with Duvel (nudge-nudge-wink-wink!) beer.So here's a bit from a Brel song:
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DO NARCOTIC drugs cause harm? Classicists will recognise that the original Greek meant things that make you numb, which may or may not be harmful depending on circumstances. But it is hard to deny that drugs such as heroin and cocaine do indeed cause harm. The question is what to do about all those drugs classified by governments around the world as so harmful as to be illegal. Cassandra's answer (happily in line with a long-established editorial view of The Economist) is, perhaps paradoxically, to legalise them, regulate them and treat them as an issue of health policy rather than criminal behaviour.


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The Department of Health and Human Services shall determine and implement the most appropriate system for this state which is available to track newborns and infants identified with a hearing loss.
Every birthing facility shall educate the parents of newborns born in such facilities of the importance of receiving a hearing screening test and any necessary follow-up care. This educational information shall explain, in lay terms, the hearing screening test, the likelihood of the newborn having a hearing loss, follow-up procedures, and community resources, including referral for early intervention services under the Early Intervention Act. The educational information shall also include a description of the normal auditory, speech, and language developmental process in children. Education shall not be considered a substitute for the hearing screening test.
The Department of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, birthing facilities, and other providers, shall develop approved screening methods and protocol for statewide hearing screening tests of substantially all newborns and infants.
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The Department of Health and Human Services shall determine which birthing facilities are administering hearing screening tests to newborns and infants on a voluntary basis and the number of newborns and infants screened. The Department shall annually report to the legislature the number of:
Every school district shall cause children under its jurisdiction to be separately and carefully inspected to ascertain if a child is suffering from defective sight or hearing. Such inspections shall be conducted on a schedule prescribed by the Department and shall be based on current medical and public health practice.
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It's a formidable challenge to keep the attention of an audience midway through a projected 12-volume series, but with their trademark blend of humor and gripping suspense, authors Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye continue to captivate readers with The Indwelling, the seventh installment of the Left Behind series.
Carpathia's funeral takes a hair-raising turn for the 4 million people who attend. Over the crowd looms the centerpiece of a new world religion, a 24-foot bronze statue of Carpathia, belching black smoke and demanding obedience. Woven through the fast-paced drama are the ongoing stories of people struggling amid the end-times mayhem: Chloe Williams wrestles with the moral implications of killing her toddler Kenny to avoid having him fall into enemy hands; her father Rayford Steele is brought face-to-face with the consequences of his pride. Dr. Chaim Rosenzweig, a prominent Jewish Israeli statesman, ponders a conversion to Christianity.
The strength of the series comes from Jenkins's ability to keep the action moving and readers caring about the characters. And there's a hook: The end of The Indwelling promises, "If the last three and a half years are your idea of tribulation, wait until you endure the Great Tribulation." The bad news is just beginning. But, the Tribulation Force believes, good news is also on the way. --Cindy Crosby
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The members of the Tribulation Force face their most dangerous challenges. Following the assassination of the Antichrist, some are murder suspects; others test the precarious line between subversion and being revealed. All over the news, reporters announce that Rayford Steele is Nicolae Carpathia's assassin, but Buck soon learns the truth. The world mourns the loss of a world leader until events at Nicolae's funeral bring all mourning to an end. A repackage of the seventh book in the New York Times best-selling Left Behind series.


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The Bombay High Court has said that the National Commission for Women (NCW) is not a judicial body and, therefore, cannot grant relief, which power rests only with the courts.
The commission, though, can pursue the complaints it receives with the appropriate authorities.
A division bench of judges VM Kanade and AK Menon stated this while allowing a petition by KPMG challenging a direction by the NCW that the private accounting firm should apologise to its woman employee and pay her compensation with bonus.
The employee had complained about sexual harassment against her seniors at the workplace in 2006. KPMG terminated her services after she had worked with the company for 14 months.
In late 2007, she sent legal notices to her senior colleagues, including KPMG India senior partner and head of its financial services, Vikram Uttam Singh. Singh was arrested by the Mumbai police.
She also approached the NCW, the Maharashtra State Commission for Women, the Cyber Cell and the National Human Rights Commission.
The HC said: "We are of the view that the commission is not entitled to arrive at final conclusions or grant reliefs that a civil or criminal court can."
The judges explained that the NCW should look into individual complaints on violation of women's rights, non-implementation of the laws providing protection for women, non-compliance of policy decisions, investigate them to verify genuineness and take them up with the appropriate authorities.
"However, it does not have unbridled power or authority. The commission functions in a recommendatory capacity and not as an adjudicatory body," the HC stated.
The HC stayed the process of the NCW, but granted liberty to pursue with the criminal complaint and the cyber crime complaint lodged against the accused.


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Feb 1, 2013, 10:18 AM | #27 | |
The current ARM based hardware is nowhere near powerful for 'real' games. you try running something like Grand Theft Auto, Formula 1 or Far Cry 3 on an iPhone. |
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Feb 1, 2013, 10:22 AM | #28 |
guy just needs to shut up and put out HL3
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Feb 1, 2013, 10:27 AM | #29 |
It is possible, but at the moment it appears Apple knows of nothing but casual gaming and are useless for people who want something more than a five minute game of chopping fruit at the bus stop.
They'll need to take gaming a little more seriously to achieve this.
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Feb 1, 2013, 10:29 AM | #30 |
Sorry, but this guy is out of his mind. There is no way apple will enter the gaming industry. I love apple but it's on it's way down already. The iphone is already showing its age and they just can't seem to innovate anymore. Not the way they did with the original iphone. The ipad is a paper weight, and Apple TV can use a lot of work. On the other hand, I love MacBooks! Best laptops around. So, no to gaming. I would be more impressed if they decided to make the ipad useful. They need to kill iOS and put OS11 on the next ipad.
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Feb 1, 2013, 10:34 AM | #31 |
Thats not true at all. The facts are that Nintendo's overall portfolio is one of the strongest in the industry. Much like Apple, they have an insanely huge and fanatic base that'll buy anything they put out. They've got a ton of big name franchises that have been multi-platinum hits for 20 years, and they don't need the half-billion dollar budgets of a game like Battlefield. Companies like EA and Ubisoft are only competitive because they are prolific.
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Please no.
Retro gaming in an Apple world is a tough challenge. Some years down the road lots of your iOS apps won't even properly open or play anymore, because Apple loves deprecating parts of the OS both on desktop as well as in mobile devices. I know Window's future is all awkward, but at least it works well for games. Everything else is gladly done in OS X. Glassed Silver:mac
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Feb 1, 2013, 10:43 AM | #34 | |
Table Top Racing If they can get games like this to Airplay to an Apple TV then things will get very interesting.
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Feb 1, 2013, 10:57 AM | #35 |
In terms of Mac gaming, it was. At least back in the late 90's. Halo was set to release on the Mac in 1999/2000. When Microsoft bought Bungie, that prospect ended. Gaming on the Mac was already bleak. With the loss of Bungie, future prospects of Mac gaming seemed even worse....and it was until the turnaround events in the 2000's.
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Feb 1, 2013, 10:59 AM | #36 | |
------ I could see Apple being on the forefront of gaming, they already got a head start with the App Store, Game Center, Apple TV, Mac Mini. Beef up the Mini, better incorporate Game Center and the App Store for gaming and they're good to go. |
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Feb 1, 2013, 11:37 AM | #37 | |
Mac <- Macintosh <- McIntosh apples <- John McIntosh <- McIntosh surname <- "Mac an toshach" <- "Son of the Chief" |
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Feb 1, 2013, 11:39 AM | #38 | |
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Feb 1, 2013, 11:41 AM | #39 |
Like many, I don't believe gaming is in Apple's DNA. I think that on this one, they should partner with those who "know gaming". Of all, Valve would be a prime candidate.
But in a way or another, they should invade the gaming market: so many people hold onto Windows only for gaming purposes. I am one... I use Mac for everything but I have a monster beast of a PC for gaming.
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Feb 1, 2013, 11:49 AM | #40 | |
The move by Apple to embrace Bungie with Halo was seen as an attempt to breathe a little life into the Mac games market. If memory serves, it was already in decline. Microsoft jumped, and bought Bungie. What was to have been a Mac/Windows game turned into an X-box exclusive. Bungie became what we all know today. This was pretty much the final nail in the coffin for Mac gaming, and embarrassing for Apple, because they were the ones who first promoted the game. So I would be very surprised if Apple dips their fingers into ANY gaming endeavour. The last two big pushes that I can remember both ended in disaster for them. |
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Feb 1, 2013, 11:57 AM | #41 | |
I thought maybe it was something embarrassing, like Steve Jobs getting up in front of a huge audience and blue-screening himself into a game in order to show his support of gaming. Not that anyone would ever do that . . .
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Feb 1, 2013, 12:12 PM | #42 | |
But some moves - such as Apple refusing to release a reasonably priced Mac with upgradable graphics, and not enabling apps on the AppleTV - seem to be almost actively fighting against (non-mobile) gaming.
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Feb 1, 2013, 12:20 PM | #43 | |
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Feb 1, 2013, 12:49 PM | #44 |
I LOVE Apple, but gaming is not their strong point. They do not understand it at all. iOS is a great platform, but most of the games are utter garbage. Sometimes you just need a standard controller, other times, it's the business model that's at fault. There is too much free crap. And the worst trend is the "free" version that is anything but if you want to actually enjoy the game. People whine about any game costing more than $2, it's insane. Now developers are afraid to charge a sustainable price for any of their games and the quality of the games available suffers because of it.
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Feb 1, 2013, 12:49 PM | #45 |
If we see a console from Apple, I wonder If it'd be called iGame :P.. But really I don't want Apple to go into the Games market.
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Feb 1, 2013, 01:27 PM | #46 |
More and more MAC clients are coming out for games because the MAC OS is gaining steam (no pun intended...well kinda) .
I've been gaming for a long time, built custom machines with the latest and greatest but I found my 27 inch Mac I bought about 2 years ago to be really solid. I don't have any issues with the high end game I play. Lots of players have trouble with their PC's with hardware failures. I don't want to be a PC hobbyist anymore. I could care less what graphics card I have as long as I'm having a good experience with the content. I actually do bootcamp Windows 7 because some of the MAC client issues on some games. It works great. The only thing I haven't gotten to work is the Apple provided headphones microphone to work with Windows 7 so I got a separate headset. I prefer the earbuds because the headset is uncomfortable after wearing it. Point is, I hope Apple gets in the game, (ugh another pun) more competition in this space is good. I really enjoy all of my Apple products for content consumption and gaming seems to be the next logical step. They could do something no one else has done with the money that have piled up. |
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Feb 1, 2013, 01:40 PM | #47 | |
It's also interesting that he says Apple has a big opportunity in gaming, since the Mac has never been a good platform for games until Steam became available on OS X, and iPhone/iPad games are very different than the typical Steam games: they're casual and simple, and quite disposable (you'll play Angry Birds for a bit of time but you won't come back to it all the time and it won't be your favorite game for the next 5 years). Maybe the Apple TV could become a "console" of sorts that could be coupled with a controller and work with "proper" Steam-like games… But then you can already do that with a Mac. Maybe he just means that there's a new category of casual gaming, and it's becoming increasingly important.
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Feb 1, 2013, 02:14 PM | #49 |
Well they certainly have the money, the ecosystem and the developers.
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Steam is a great product, and I greatly admire Gabe and what Valve does. But I think he's wrong. I think the Steam Box will have limited penetration into the living room because Valve does not have a rapport with the average consumer, nor will that consumer be inclined to put a whole PC in their living room when the consumer electronics trend is towards low power, dedicated set top and streaming boxes. Those devices are taking on the capabilities of what enthusiasts have been using HTPCs for, further eliminating the need for such devices.
And if the Steam Box wants to compete with the average console, it has to do it on a cost basis. When a next generation console launches, to get the same performance out of a PC, you're likely going to spend double, or at least 50% more of what the console cost. That will erode over time, but then what is your model? More frequent updates like mobile hardware? Sure, they can market that you have your games wherever you have steam, but if Sony and MS have streaming ambitions (Sony's Gakai acquisition suggests so), they may be on their way to enabling remote play themselves, either via a vita, PC, tablet, or what have you. The Steam Box has very little novel value proposition for the average consumer, and that's why I don't think it will gain good traction with consumers. It may win over the people that already use Steam, but those are dedicated gamers already. Steam made PC gaming easier and more accessible, but that didn't drive people back in droves. That just convinced the people already there that the open nature of the PC was working and the proper things were being leveraged to make it a compelling experience from a purchaser's standpoint.
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July 6, 2009
By Steven Groves
Judge Sonia Sotomayor has not yet had occasion to cite to or rely upon foreign or international law to interpret the United States Constitution. She will have a lifetime to do so, however, if confirmed to replace Justice David Souter as the next associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Based upon a recent speech given by Sotomayor, it appears that she will continue in the tradition of sitting members of the Court--such as Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg, John Paul Stevens, and Anthony Kennedy--in polling "the world community" and citing as persuasive authority the rulings of foreign and international courts.
She should therefore be questioned at length during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding the role that foreign law and world opinion will play in her decision-making process.
Sotomayor Supports the Citation of Foreign and International Law to Interpret the U.S. Constitution
In the foreword to a 2007 book, The International Judge, Judge Sotomayor wrote that "the question of how much we have to learn from foreign law and the international community when interpreting our Constitution is ... worth posing."[1] Sotomayor did not, however, indicate her position on the issue. To date, no opinion written or joined by Sotomayor while at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals or the District Court for the Southern District of New York has been uncovered where she relied upon foreign or international law to interpret the meaning of the U.S. Constitution.[2] There is, therefore, scant material from which to draw upon to determine Sotomayor's position on the use of foreign and international law.
In April 2009, however, Sotomayor made extensive comments on the issue in a speech she delivered to the Puerto Rican chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).[3] In that speech, Sotomayor made it clear that the Court's citation to foreign and international law was proper and indeed laudable since "international law and foreign law will be very important in the discussion of how to think about the unsettled issues in our own legal system."
At the outset of her speech, Judge Sotomayor attempted to draw a distinction between the "use" and "consideration" of foreign and international law in interpreting the Constitution:
I always find it strange when people ask me, "How do American courts use foreign and international law in making their decision?" And I pause and say, "We don't use foreign or international law; we consider the ideas that are suggested by an international court of law." ... I, for one, believe that if you look at the ideas of everyone, consider them, and test them, test the force of their persuasiveness, look at them carefully, examine where they're coming from and why, that your own decision will be more informed.[4]
Sotomayor's statements may be fairly read to mean that it is improper for a judge to use foreign law as controlling precedent, but merely considering foreign law in reaching a judicial decision is appropriate. This is, however, a distinction without a difference. Of course foreign and international law has no binding, precedential value in U.S. courts. Even the current justices of the Supreme Court who have cited to foreign law and "world opinion" take pains to make that point clear in their written opinions.[5]
Yet to "consider" foreign law while analyzing the provisions of the U.S. Constitution is to "use" foreign law. It defies logic to say that, in reaching a judicial decision, a judge may review and "consider" the opinions of foreign tribunals without ultimately "using" those opinions. In other words, even if Sotomayor suggests that she does not advocate "using" foreign law as binding or controlling authority, her own statements concede that she endorses its "use" as persuasive authority. This "use" is dangerous, because American law is unique--the constitutional protection of free speech, for example, is far more robust than in most other nations--and so relying on persuasive foreign authority could serve to undermine these key, and uniquely American, constitutional protections.
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Sotomayor went on to inform the ACLU of Puerto Rico that she aligned herself with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg "in thinking or believing that unless American courts are more open to discussing the ideas raised by foreign cases, by international cases, that we are going to lose influence in the world."[6] This is apparently an allusion to a speech that Justice Ginsberg had recently delivered at a symposium at Ohio State University, where she lamented that the influence of the U.S. Supreme Court was diminishing since it had not regularly used foreign law in reaching its decisions.[7] Ginsberg admonished: "You will not be listened to if you don't listen to others."
That is, perhaps, the weakest justification for using foreign and international law for constitutional interpretation. It is argument by ego--and reminiscent of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's speech shortly before her retirement in 2006 when she stated that relying on foreign law "may not only enrich our own country's decisions; it will create that all-important good impression."[8] In fact, Justice Ginsberg bemoaned that the Canadian Supreme Court is "probably cited more widely abroad than the U.S. Supreme Court."[9]
But influencing foreign courts and creating a "good impression" is neither the duty nor obligation of a Supreme Court justice. International politics and public diplomacy are by their nature functions of the political branches of the U.S. government, particularly the executive branch. Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that the Supreme Court should function in such a manner so that its jurisprudence influences foreign tribunals. Nor is such a duty reflected in the oath of office to the Supreme Court, which requires members to "faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me ... under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God."
Being popular among one's international peers at law school symposia and overseas conferences should not enter the calculus of Supreme Court justices when deciding on cases of crucial constitutional importance.
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In the years ahead, anti-death penalty activists will continue their quest to incrementally erode and ultimately ban capital punishment in the United States. Other activists will likely call for the Court to outlaw the practice of sentencing juvenile killers to life without the possibility of parole.[10] If Sotomayor is confirmed to the Court, she will enjoy life tenure and will have many opportunities to interpret the Constitution regarding these issues and other social issues where--in the recent past--the citation of foreign law has sparked controversy.[11]
In the last two Supreme Court confirmation hearings, both Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito were questioned on the matter of citing foreign and international law. In light of her speech to the ACLU of Puerto Rico, Sotomayor should also be questioned regarding her views on the subject. Such questions could include the following:
An Obligation to Explain
The United States may very well have something to learn by studying the legal opinions of foreign nations and polling the practices of the international community. Where the ideas and norms that hold sway in foreign lands are compelling, they may be incorporated into the American system--but this is properly done through democratic means, in particular through elected legislators at the state and federal level.
Imposing foreign norms and practices through judicial fiat is another matter. And while such an imposition may create a "good impression" among the international judiciary and legal professoriate, it has little to do with sound constitutional interpretation. If Judge Sotomayor intends to join her colleagues already on the Court in relying upon something other than U.S. legal precedent and American norms in interpreting the Constitution, then she has an obligation to explain and defend her position at the forthcoming confirmation hearing.
Steven Groves is Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation.
[Transcript of Judge Sotomayor's April 2009 Speech to the American Civil Liberties Union of Puerto Rico][12]
I always find it strange when people ask me, "How do American courts use foreign and international law in making their decision?" And I pause and say "We don't use foreign or international law; we consider the ideas that are suggested by an international court of law." That's a very different concept and it's a concept that's misunderstood by many. And it's what creates the controversy, in America especially, that surrounds the question of whether American judges should listen to foreign or international law. And I always stop and say, "How can you ask a person to close their ears?"
Ideas have no boundaries. Ideas are what set our creative juices flowing. They permit us to think. And to suggest to anyone that you can outlaw the use of foreign or international law is a sentiment that's based on a fundamental misunderstanding. What you would be asking American judges to do is to close their minds to good ideas, to some good ideas. There are some ideas we may disagree with, for any number of reasons. But ideas are ideas. And whatever their source, whether they come from foreign law, or international law, or a trial judge in Alabama, or a circuit court in California, or any other place, if the idea has validity, if it persuades you, [speaks in Spanish], then you're going to adopt its reasoning. If it doesn't fit, then you won't use it. And that's really the message that I want you to leave with here with today.
I'm going to try first to understand the way that American law is structured against the use of foreign and international law, because American analytical principles do not permit us to use that law to decide our cases. But nothing in the American legal system stops us from considering the ideas that that law can give us. So let me start by explaining what the limits are under American law in using foreign or international law.
Even treaties are not law in the United States unless the treaty, when it is signed by the President, explicitly says that it becomes law in the United States, or Congress can later not merely ratify the convention, but it has to implement it, it has to pass a law that says, "This treaty is now the law of the United States." So think about it. The President of the United States has signed dozens and dozens of treaties. Some of the most important treaties of human rights law: the convention against torture, the convention against racial discrimination. Many of the human rights treaties that the United States has passed are not laws in the U.S. They are moral obligations by the United States, but they are not enforceable in a United States court.
So no private litigant can come to a U.S. court for those conventions that have not been executed or implemented, can come to a U.S. court and rely on those conventions to establish a claim. That's a concept that most people don't appreciate. But it informs all of American jurisprudence. Which is, unless a treaty is what we call self-executing, unless the treaty says, "It becomes law," then it's only a moral obligation, number one. Number two: Unless Congress passes another law that says, "Private citizens have a right to enforce this treaty in an American court," then the treaty is not law that a private citizen can rely upon.
That's international law, treaties. Foreign law's something else. Foreign law is the law of a foreign nation. Foreign law is sometimes used by American courts in that very word that they used, but it's a very limited circumstance. It's when a private dispute invokes foreign law for its own decision making. And what that means is if you have an American company and a foreign company signing a contract, American conflicts of law will say, "Let's look at the contract and let's look at what nation that contract has the most context with. Is this a contract that really belongs in Puerto Rico, or in Spain, or in England? Or is it a contract that really is American, where one party happens to be foreign? If the American court decides that the contract is really a Puerto Rican contract, a Spanish contract, an English contract, then it will actually use the law of that country to decide the legal claim, unless the law of that country violates public policy of the United States. And I can tell you that there's a whole host of cases in U.S. law about "What is U.S. public policy?" because as you can imagine there's a lot of difference of opinion on what's really an important public policy. But that's a very, very limited circumstance in which an American court applies foreign law. In almost all situations it is American law that supplies the rules on how to decide a case.
So you end up with treaties, most of the time, even though under article four of the Constitution it says that "Treaties are the supreme law of the land," in most instances, they're not even law. In others, they've become law and there's an American judicial principle that says "Even if a treaty is self-executing, even if Congress gave you a right under the treaty, the Congress the next year can take that right away." And if a later Congress says, "We don't like that treaty," and they change the law, the treaty is dead law.
And so, as I hope you're understanding, the use of foreign and international law in the American judicial system holds very limited formal force. The force comes only when there is goodwill on the part of the president and on Congress in respecting the obligations under those treaties and commitments. In saying all of this, by the way, I am not suggesting that America is tremendously different than a lot of other foreign nations. Our way of interpreting the force of foreign and international law does differ, however, from many of our more important neighbors. Many of our neighbors simply don't understand when America signs a treaty and we don't respect the obligations established by that treaty.
That happened most recently in the Medellin case. I'm sure that all of the civil rights organizations here know that case. It's a very, very recent case decided by our Supreme Court. In Medellin, it was a case last year, the International Court of Justice had heard a complaint filed by Mexican citizens who were on death row in America challenging their sentences on the grounds that Texas authorities had violated the Vienna Convention by failing to consult with the consulate of Mexico. The convention requires that every time a signatory to the convention is arrested, that the arresting country will tell the consulate of that arrest and let the prisoner talk to the consulate so they can get some help and understand their legal rights.
So it makes sense to most people. If you get arrested in another country you want someone from your own country to help you understand what's going. The International Court of Justice, an international court, had declared that the United States had violated that convention, and had ordered the United States to re-sentence the defendants. Now it didn't tell the courts how to do it, but it did tell the U.S. court, "You have to re-sentence these defendants. You violated that convention." The Supreme Court was asked to determine what the effect of that ICU [sic] decision would be, and what the Supreme Court said was, "It has no effect. It has no effect because that treaty is not self-executing. It is not the law of the land. And we in American courts are not bound by the determination of any international court unless there is a law passed by Congress that directs us to do that."
Now, I put a small aside here. Some have asked me whether if Congress had passed a law that said, "You have to, United States courts, give effects to the decisions of foreign countries." There is an argument that's been raised by many people, that that might be an unconstitutional law, because no foreign country can tell an American court how to determine an American constitutional right. I put that only as an aside because when I said what I said there is a limit to even how much even Congress can tell us to accept a foreign decision.
Medellin sent, I think it's fair to say, was a surprise to many human rights groups and civil rights groups. But it was premised on very traditional American law principles about the use or non-use of international and foreign law in deciding our cases.
All of this said, it is not to suggest, however, that we don't use the ideas of foreign courts in some of our decision making. Very recently in New York, for example, the Court of Appeals of New York looked to the foreign law to decide how to interpret the contract rights under the treaty for contracts. Similarly, California has used it in other contexts, so have other American courts. But this use does have a great deal of criticism. The nature of the criticism comes from, as I explained, the misunderstanding of the American use of that concept of using foreign law.
And that misunderstanding is unfortunately endorsed by some of our own Supreme Court justices. Both Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas have written extensively criticizing the use of foreign and international law in Supreme Court decisions. They have a somewhat valid point. They argue that because there are so many international and foreign laws and so many of them vary, that a judge can look to the law of any country to support his or her own conclusion, because they'll find someone who will agree with them. So it's easy to say, "This is a good idea because England likes it," forgetting to mention that Russia doesn't, that Russian law doesn't, or vice versa.
It is a point that's validly taken, but I think I share more the ideas of Justice Ginsburg in thinking or believing that unless American courts are more open to discussing the ideas raised by foreign cases, by international cases, that we are going to lose influence in the world. Justice Ginsburg has explained very recently in an address to the South African Constitutional Court that foreign opinions are not authoritative. They set no binding precedent for U.S. courts. But they give add to the story of knowledge relevant to the solution of a question. And she's right.
We have looked, in some Supreme Court decisions, to foreign law to help us decide our issues. So, for example, in Roper v. Simmons, Justice Kennedy noted that for almost a half-century, the Supreme Court has referenced the law of other countries and to international authorities as instructive for its interpretation of the 8th Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. And in that case, the Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty of juveniles in the United States. Similarly, in a recent case, Lawrence v. Tribe [sic], the Supreme Court overturned a Texas state law making it a crime for two people of the same sex to engage in certain intimate, sexual acts. And the justice referred to the repeal of such laws in many, many states and in many countries of the world.
In both those cases, the courts were very, very careful to note that they weren't using that law to decide the American question. They were just using that law to help us understand what the concepts meant to other countries, and to help us understand whether our understanding of our own constitutional rights, fell into the mainstream of human thinking. There may well be times when we disagree with the mainstream of international law, but there is much ambiguity in law, and I, for one, believe that if you look at the ideas of everyone, consider them, and test them, test the force of their persuasiveness, look at them carefully, examine where they're coming from and why, that your own decision will be more informed.
Having said all of this, I do remind you that there are ways in which judges do make decisions that are not grounded in careful enough analysis of what's persuading them. And there are decisions that will say, "I'm adopting X or Y," instead of explaining why X or Y is persuasive, and I think that that's why some of the confusion about the use of foreign law has arisen in the United States.
Having said all this, I'm trying to cut my presentation short, I have 45 minutes and I'm trying not to bore you. So I think I'm now well within my time to finish.
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[1]Daniel Terris, Cesare P. R. Romano, and Leigh Swigart, The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World's Cases (Boston: Brandeis University Press, 2007).
[2]Sotomayor cited to foreign law in at least one case that involved an international custody dispute where the substance of child custody laws in Hong Kong were at issue and thus arguably relevant. See Croll v. Croll, 229 F.3d 133 (Sotomayor, J., dissenting).
[3]Judge Sonia Sotomayor, speech to ACLU of Puerto Rico, April 2009, at http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/06/10/us/politics/1194840839480/speech-to-the-a-c-l-u-of-puerto-rico.html (July 6, 2009). A full transcript of the speech is appended hereto.
[4] Ibid. (emphasis as spoken).
[5] See, e.g., Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), where Justice Anthony Kennedy writes, "The opinion of the world community [regarding the juvenile death penalty], while not controlling our outcome, does provide respected and significant confirmation for our own conclusions" (emphasis added); Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 316 n.21 (2002), where Justice John Paul Stevens writes, "Although these factors [the disapproval of the world community, non-government organizations, and polling data regarding the death penalty for mentally retarded defendants] are by no means dispositive, their consistency with the legislative evidence lends further support to our conclusion that there is a consensus among those who have addressed the issue" (emphasis added).
[6]Sotomayor, speech to ACLU of Puerto Rico.
[7]Adam Liptak, "Ginsberg Shares Views on Influence of Foreign Law on Her Court, and Vice Versa," The New York Times, April 12, 2009, at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/us/12ginsburg.html (July 6, 2009).
[8]Adam Liptak, "U.S. Court Is Now Guiding Fewer Nations," The New York Times, September 18, 2008, at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/18legal.html (July 6, 2009).
[9] Ibid.
[10]See, i.e., "The Rest of Their Lives; Life without Parole for Child Offenders in the United States," Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, 2005, at /static/reportimages/5C6813F49DFBA292CC1008EDCE1C90E2.pdf (July 6, 2009).
[11] See, e.g., Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005) (juvenile death penalty), Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) (death penalty for mentally retarded), and Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) (criminalization of homosexual conduct).
[12]Transcribed by The Heritage Foundation from a video of Judge Sotomayor's speech to the ACLU of Puerto Rico in April 2009, available at http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/06/10/us/politics/1194840839480/speech-to-the-a-c-l-u-of-puerto-rico.html (July 6, 2009). The italicized portions of the transcript reflect the words emphasized by Judge Sotomayor.
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